Re: Root account desactivated

[Michael Gale <michael () bluesuperman com>]

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HAHHAHAHAHA .....

Take a slackware CD, boot from it. You will end up a command prompt. Now
type the following commands as shown, if it fails use a Win2k CD and
follow the on screen instruction.

root <ENTER> =3D logs you in as root
mount /dev/hda2 /mnt =3D replace /dev/hda2 with the drive and partition
that the RH /etc directory is on. It not sure you can try
/dev/hda1,/dev/hda2,/dev/hda3 and so on ....

cd /mnt/etc
vi passwd

vi commands:
i =3D allows you to insert text
x =3D like delete in command mode
ESC =3D enter command mode
q =3D exit
q! =3D exit a modified file
wq =3D exit and save a modified file

Once you are done, unmount the drive:
umount /mnt
reboot

That should fix the problem, now change the root password.

Michael.




On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:50:08 -0500 (EST)
sil <jesus () resurrected us> wrote:

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> If you have sudo on the machine you can try doing something like
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> sudo sed 's/\/sbin/\/nologin/\/bin\/bash/g' /etc/passwd >>
> /tmp/passwd|\ mv /tmp/passwd /etc/passwd
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> -=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=
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> "The most tyrannical of governments are those which make
> crimes of  opinions, for everyone has an inalienable
> right to his thoughts." -- Benedict Spinoza
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> //sil
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> http://www.kungfunix.net   http://www.politrix.org
> http://www.infiltrated.net http://bush.shafted.us
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> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, MARTIN M. B=E9noni wrote:
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> > Hi community!
> >
> > I have a really stupid trouble: on a Redhat 9.0, the line matching
> > the root account in the file /etc/passwd has been changed from
> > ".../bin/bash" to".../sbin/nologin". We have the root password, but
> > when performing a "su" command, the system replies that the account
> > is not currently available.
> >
> > So the question is: how from an user's account and knowing the
> > root's password but having the root account disabled can we
> > reactivate this root's account?
> >
> > Any suggestion would be appreciated, I do not want to reinstall the
> > box :(
> >
> > Thanks a lot in advance!
> >
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Hand over the Slackware CD's and back AWAY from the computer, your geek
rights have been revoked !!!

Michael Gale
Slackware user :)
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